No crime against God's or man have I committed, save to speak the truth.

Bonus points to anyone who knows where that quote is from because it isn't Greek myth or tragedy.

Hi, hello, welcome, this is Let's Talk About Myths, baby, and I am Liv, she of the spooky season obsession.

I am back again with the last of the standard solo spooky season episodes for the year and we're going out with a bang.

On Friday, I will have a conversation coming that's all about witches of Greek and Roman myth and just the idea of those witches generally, you don't want to miss it.

But today, well, there's one woman in Greek myth who is utterly fascinating and, for the most part, pretty fucking cursed.

Here's the thing about Cassandra, though, and that incredibly famous curse of hers. It doesn't actually appear in all that many sources.

Instead, Cassandra is a character that appears in so many places and in a number of different forms, at least when it comes to her role as Prophetess and Sister of Paris and Hector, little one woman later enslaved by Agamemnon.

Cassandra is more than you think, that curse is a little different. But we'll get there. For now, another quick announcement, I'm just teasing you about next week's episode.

Because well, you absolutely do not want to miss it. I will be speaking with someone who so, so many of you love.

A certain author and artist of a certain iconic series. Any guesses? Feel free to tweet them at me, comment on Instagram. I want to hear if you can guess, and how excited you are for this one.

We recorded it actually back at the end of September, so I've been sitting on this news for so long. Because well, there's a book coming out. Fuck this job is fun.

Today, though, today, we're covering the mysterious and intriguing Prophetess herself, the woman we all know as cursed not to be believed even though washi? Cassandra.

This is episode 142. No crime have I committed, save to speak the truth. The cursed Cassandra.

Cassandra is one of the most well-known characters from Greek myth in today's world. People don't always know who she is or what she was famous for besides most notable point.

She was a Prophetess who was cursed not to be believed.

The word Cassandra goes on in time to imply prophetic visions of some kind. It evolves and grows far beyond this one woman from Troy.

But it turns out the idea of her being explicitly cursed by Apollo or a survivor of Apollo isn't all that widespread across the sourcing.

In fact, Cassandra herself is somewhat minor, actually very minor in basically everything that survives except Eescalus' agamemnon.

The others wrote plays that featured her. Both Euripides and Sophocles had plays entitled Alexandros.

Plays about parrises returned to Troy after growing up as a shepherd who didn't understand his heritage.

The Eurica Sandra would have featured fairly heavily, but neither play survives. If she's in the Iliad at all, it's as a minor reference and even that I can't think of.

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